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More than resource discovery…
• Libraries and archives have spent the
last two decades making digital assets
and harvesting born-digital objects.
• We can now do much more than use
technology to discover these digital
objects and embrace the opportunities
afforded by an intellectual turn toward
digitally-driven research
• So digital research is about:
– New tools
– New discoveries
– New understanding
“The emergence of the new
digital humanities isn’t an
isolated academic
phenomenon. The
institutional and disciplinary
changes are part of a larger
cultural shift, inside and
outside the academy, a
rapid cycle of emergence
and convergence in
technology and culture”
Steven E Jones, Emergence of
the Digital Humanities (2013)

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Scalability: how to filter, find and analyse
the information I need?
• How many data is generated in
ONE day?
1. Twitter: 7 TB
2. Facebook: 10 TB
• By 2020 we will have
approximately 35 ZB (1.1 Trillion
GB) of Data available

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Digital Libraries: 10 “in” rules
1.Integrity: access to digital
object as it has been created
2.Integration: different contents
and file formats available from a
single platform
3.Interoperability: different
programmes and operating
systems compatible with each
other
4.Instant access: unrestricted
access to material, especially
from mobile devices
5.Interaction: catalogues that
provide Web 2.0 features (blogs,
wikis, tags, content sharing, etc)
6.Information: comprehensive
metadata for fast and reliable
retrieval of content
7.Ingest of content: constant
upload of new digital content
8. Interpretation: digital content placed in
relation to other items in the collection
9.Innovation: material to be presented in
innovative ways
10.Indefinite access: digital objects to be
preserved for posterity

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Digital Conversations
• Series of talks organised by DRCT on specific themes around ideas, tools and
projects around Digital Scholarship. Contributors have included
entrepreneurs, technologists, librarians, academics and analysts.
• Events held:
1. Search and Discovery
2. Sharing and Annotation
3. Profiling and Privacy
4. Open for Re-use
5. Future of Text
6. Digital Narratives
7. Using the Cloud
• Events are recorded on video and made publicly available on BL Youtube
account: http://bit.ly/XFJrcI

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Engagement with users III:
BL Labs (Launched March 2013)
• The BL Labs project, sponsored by A. Mellon Foundation, designed to support
the BL to provide access to its digital resources and enable scholars to research
entire collections rather than just individual items by:
• 1. Reviewing the BL’s approach to licensing: moving towards a coherent licence
framework and setting the standard for access to catalogue metadata and out-
of-copyright materials in digital form.
• 2. Enabling scholars to use and implement novel services; to access, download,
and analyse digital content; and to link data to other data and digital collections
in order to allow research that analyses entire collections. This will be achieved
by providing access to catalogue and digital materials through simple open
protocols and semantic linking.
• 3. Creating BL Labs so that scholars can work intensively with the Library’s
digital collections to collaboratively define and implement the services that they
need in the digital age.

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Creating and Sharing Digital Content
• Europeana 1914 – 1918:
• The BL is digitising 10,000 items (up to 250,000 digital images) of
a wide range of material related to the First World War. Digitised
content will be retrievable via the Europeana portal, as well as via
the BL website, and this will form the Library’s contribution to the
Europeana Collections 1914-1918.
• http://www.europeana1914-1918.eu/en
• http://www.bl.uk/world-war-one
• International Image Interoperability Framework
(iiif)
• The BL and Stanford University, with a half dozen of the world’s
leading research libraries and funding from the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation, are working collaboratively to produce an
interoperable framework for image delivery. With shared
technology, common application programming interfaces (APIs),
and rich user interfaces, this framework will surpass the current
crop of image viewers, page-turners, and navigation systems,
giving scholars an unprecedented level of uniform and rich access
to image-based resources. http://lib.stanford.edu/iiif
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